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Eldgjá

Katla

Rekahan erupsi · Iceland · 1490 m

Katla volcano, near the southern end of Iceland's Eastern Volcanic Zone, comprises a central volcano, a 100 km2 caldera beneath the Mýrdalsjökull icecap, plus fissure systems. Valley glaciers descend from the summit toward the coastal plain in this aerial view from the SSW. Katla has very frequent eruptions. Explosive eruptions from the central volcano produce large volumes of tephra and are frequently accompanied by damaging glacier-outburst floods called jökulhlaups. Effusive eruptions producing large volumes of lava are characteristic of the fissure system.
Katla volcano, near the southern end of Iceland's Eastern Volcanic Zone, comprises a central volcano, a 100 km2 caldera beneath the Mýrdalsjökull icecap, plus fissure systems. Valley glaciers descend from the summit toward the coastal plain in this aerial view from the SSW. Katla has very frequent eruptions. Explosive eruptions from the central volcano produce large volumes of tephra and are frequently accompanied by damaging glacier-outburst floods called jökulhlaups. Effusive eruptions producing large volumes of lava are characteristic of the fissure system. · Foto: Photo by Oddur Sigurdsson, 1985 (Icelandic National Energy Authority). · Wikimedia Commons
Tipe
Rekahan erupsi
Negara
Iceland
Wilayah
Atlantic Ocean Volcanic Regions / Iceland Neovolcanic Rift Volcanic Province
Ketinggian
1490 m
Koordinat
63.633, -19.083
Letusan terakhir
1918
Kondisi tektonik
Rift zone / Oceanic crust (< 15 km)
Bentuk lahan
Cluster
Batuan utama
Basalt / Picro-Basalt
Ringkasan geologi

Katla volcano, located near the southern end of Iceland's eastern volcanic zone, is hidden beneath the Myrdalsjökull icecap. The subglacial basaltic-to-rhyolitic volcano is one of Iceland's most active and is a frequent producer of damaging jökulhlaups, or glacier-outburst floods. A large 10 x 14 km subglacial caldera with a long axis in a NW-SE direction is up to 750 m deep. Its high point reaches 1380 m, and three major outlet glaciers have breached its rim. Although most recorded eruptions have taken place from fissures inside the caldera, the Eldgjá fissure system, which extends about 60 km to the NE from the current ice margin towards Grímsvötn volcano, has been the source of major Holocene eruptions. An eruption from the Eldgjá fissure system about 934 CE produced a voluminous lava flow of about 18 km3, one of the world's largest known Holocene lava flows. Katla has been the source of frequent subglacial basaltic explosive eruptions that have been among the largest tephra-producers in Iceland during historical time and has also produced numerous dacitic explosive eruptions during the Holocene.

Ringkasan Wikipedia

Eldgjá adalah sebuah gunung berapi dan ngarai yang terletak di Islandia. Eldgjá dan gunung berapi Katla merupakan bagian dari sistem vulkanik yang sama.

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6380 BCE~6101 BCE · 4 letusan · VEI maks. ?6101 BCE~5821 BCE · 4 letusan · VEI maks. ?5821 BCE~5542 BCE · 6 letusan · VEI maks. ?5542 BCE~5263 BCE · 3 letusan · VEI maks. ?5263 BCE~4983 BCE · 5 letusan · VEI maks. ?4983 BCE~4704 BCE · 3 letusan · VEI maks. ?4704 BCE~4425 BCE · 3 letusan · VEI maks. ?4425 BCE~4146 BCE · 4 letusan · VEI maks. ?4146 BCE~3866 BCE · 2 letusan · VEI maks. ?3866 BCE~3587 BCE · 5 letusan · VEI maks. ?3587 BCE~3308 BCE · 4 letusan · VEI maks. ?3308 BCE~3028 BCE · 2 letusan · VEI maks. ?3028 BCE~2749 BCE · 2 letusan · VEI maks. 32749 BCE~2470 BCE · 3 letusan · VEI maks. ?2470 BCE~2190 BCE · 3 letusan · VEI maks. ?2190 BCE~1911 BCE · 8 letusan · VEI maks. 41911 BCE~1632 BCE · 5 letusan · VEI maks. ?1632 BCE~1353 BCE · 2 letusan · VEI maks. 41353 BCE~1073 BCE · 5 letusan · VEI maks. 31073 BCE~794 BCE · 4 letusan · VEI maks. 4794 BCE~515 BCE · 8 letusan · VEI maks. ?515 BCE~235 BCE · 3 letusan · VEI maks. ?235 BCE~44 · 2 letusan · VEI maks. ?44~323 · 5 letusan · VEI maks. 3323~603 · 4 letusan · VEI maks. ?603~882 · 4 letusan · VEI maks. ?882~1161 · 6 letusan · VEI maks. 41161~1440 · 8 letusan · VEI maks. 51440~1720 · 7 letusan · VEI maks. 51720~1999 · 7 letusan · VEI maks. 56380 BCE4425 BCE2190 BCE235 BCE1720

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  1. 1999VEI 0Perkiraan geologi
    1999-07-17 – 1999-08-15
    W, S, and E margins of caldera
  2. 1955VEI 0Perkiraan geologi
    1955-06-25 – Berlangsung
    East side of caldera
  3. 1918VEI 4Teramati
    1918-10-12 – 1918-11-04
    South side of caldera
  4. 1860VEI 4Teramati
    1860-05-08 – 1860-05-27
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    1823-06-26 – 1823-07-23
    Arcuate fissure in south part of caldera
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